Word: shallowed
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...these words appeared in the speech was overwhelming, as the echoed “buzz” words pounded into shape a concise political critique. Its point was clearer than other films at the festival that indiscriminately linked new and old television footage to mock its subjects with a shallow and undeveloped accusatory attitude. Norris notably kept his footage in context and related it to the words that preoccupy today’s political world as a whole...
...music success is often about hooks and image, radio play and squeezing into niches. Today, pop music often divides listeners more than it unites them, as fans take sides for and against gangsta rap or rap-rock or alt. country or teen pop. Shallow music sells because it can be understood readily within the 3-minute span of a pop song; great music endures because it can stand up to repeated listens, and, in fact, grows with each hearing...
...rarely treat their students as pitchers to be filled up with the correct mix of red and blue ideas, but as human beings who deserve a clear explication of all relevant viewpoints. Universities should try to eliminate the problem of poor teaching and disengaged faculty—not this shallow question of whether professors are conservative or liberal...
...greater extent the importance of quality contributions" from board directors, says Mina Gouran, head of U.K. Board Services at Korn/Ferry. Translation: nobody wants these gigs anymore, so directors might soon be in short supply. "Public companies are worried in Britain that the gene pool for recruiting directors is becoming shallow," warns Digby Jones, director general of the British employers' group the CBI. For European firms listed in the U.S., compliance with America's Sarbanes-Oxley Act - the 2002 law that introduced tough new rules on how public firms report their numbers - is adding to the burden of compliance. Jones claims...
...waiter presented us with a plate of glazed apricots, stuffed with luscious mascarpone and slivered almonds, swimming in a shallow pool of ambrosial rosewater syrup. This fruit truly was divine, and worth the trip up to Somerville...